I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Truth is the edict of God.

Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.